Imprynted at London: By Jhon Daye ... and William Seres, 1549. Folio (27.7 cm, 10.75"). [1] f. Neatly printed leaf from the 1549 Matthew's Bible, a reprinting of the 1537 edition of it (a.k.a., the "Wife Beater's Bible"), a "version, which welds together the best work of Tyndale and Coverdale, [and which is] generally considered to be the real primary version of our English Bible" (Herbert). This offering contains the story of Moses parting the Red Sea as recorded in Exodus 14 (in addition to sections of chapters 13 and 15). The text is printed in double-column format in an interesting gothic (i.e., "black letter") type with many sidenotes and two five-line woodcut initials. => An early reader has added two dainty manicules in a faded ink pointing to where God tells Moses he will fight for the children of Israel. Provenance: From the leaf collection of printing specimens of the Grabhorn Press. STC (rev. ed.) 2077; ESTC S106943; Herbert 74; Rumball-Petre 84; Copinger, Bible and its Transmission, p. 304; Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books, 15361603, 2077. Housed under a black mat in a blue and white paper folder; mat with one crease, folders showing adhesive residue, leaf attached at bottom margin with a small piece of tape. Light age-toning, some staining at edges, readership markings as above. => Early printing of an important passage and a handsome Biblical artifact.

Imprynted at London: By Jhon Daye ... and William Seres, 1549. Folio (27.7 cm, 10.75"). [1] f. Neatly printed leaf from the 1549 Matthew's Bible, a reprinting of the 1537 edition of it (a.k.a., the "Wife Beater's Bible"), a "version, which welds together the best work of Tyndale and Coverdale, [and which is] generally considered to be the real primary version of our English Bible" (Herbert). This offering contains the story of Moses parting the Red Sea as recorded in Exodus 14 (in addition to sections of chapters 13 and 15). The text is printed in double-column format in an interesting gothic (i.e., "black letter") type with many sidenotes and two five-line woodcut initials. => An early reader has added two dainty manicules in a faded ink pointing to where God tells Moses he will fight for the children of Israel. Provenance: From the leaf collection of printing specimens of the Grabhorn Press. STC (rev. ed.) 2077; ESTC S106943; Herbert 74; Rumball-Petre 84; Copinger, Bible and its Transmission, p. 304; Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books, 15361603, 2077. Housed under a black mat in a blue and white paper folder; mat with one crease, folders showing adhesive residue, leaf attached at bottom margin with a small piece of tape. Light age-toning, some staining at edges, readership markings as above. => Early printing of an important passage and a handsome Biblical artifact.

By Jhon Daye ... and William Seres. Neatly printed leaf from the 1549 Matthew's Bible, a reprinting of the 1537 edition of it (a.k.a., the "Wife Beater's Bible"), a "version, which welds together the best work of Tyndale and Coverdale, [and which is] generally considered to be the real primary version of our English Bible" (Herbert). This offering contains the story of Moses parting the Red Sea as recorded in Exodus 14 (in addition to sections of chapters 13 and 15).
The text is printed in double-column format in an interesting gothic (i.e., "black letter") type with many sidenotes and two five-line woodcut initials. => An early reader has added two dainty manicules in a faded ink pointing to where God tells Moses he will fight for the children of Israel.
Provenance: From the leaf collection of printing specimens of the Grabhorn Press.

By Jhon Daye ... and William Seres. Neatly printed leaf from the 1549 Matthew's Bible, a reprinting of the 1537 edition of it (a.k.a., the "Wife Beater's Bible"), a "version, which welds together the best work of Tyndale and Coverdale, [and which is] generally considered to be the real primary version of our English Bible" (Herbert). This offering contains the story of Moses parting the Red Sea as recorded in Exodus 14 (in addition to sections of chapters 13 and 15).
The text is printed in double-column format in an interesting gothic (i.e., "black letter") type with many sidenotes and two five-line woodcut initials. => An early reader has added two dainty manicules in a faded ink pointing to where God tells Moses he will fight for the children of Israel.
Provenance: From the leaf collection of printing specimens of the Grabhorn Press.

[Magdeburg: Christian Rödinger, 1549]. 4to (20.5 cm, 8"). [32] ff. First vernacular translation of Luther's Aliquot epistolae Reverendi Patris piae memoriae D. Martini Lutheri quibusdam theologis ad Augustana Comitia, anno 1530, scriptae, being letters principally addressed to => Melanchthon and Brenz, with their replies, but other correspondents include Johann Friedrich I, Kurfürst von Sachsen; Gregor Brück; Georg Spalatin; Justus Jonas; Johann Bugenhagen; Georg III, Fürst von Anhalt; and Kaspar Cruciger. The letters were collected by Veit Dietrich and edited by Matthias Flacius Illyricus. Apparently the motivations behind this publication were based in the Adiaphorist controversy that the Diet of Augsburg resolved in 1548, and the imperially issued Augsburg Interim during the Diet. Flacius wished to remind Protestants that Luther's stances on many of the issues addressed by the Augsburg Interim were at odds with the contents of that document  which Luther himself could not do, as he had died in 1546. Printed in fraktur, of course, and with a large woodcut portrait of Luther (Kind's no. 63) on the verso of the title-page, this was, strangely, issued without imprint information. Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of H. Spart; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear. Kind, Lutherdrucke, 264; Hammer, Melanchthonforschung, 90; VD16 L3726; Hohenemser, 2713; Kuczýnski, 1838; Pegg, Bibliotheca, 764; Pegg, Swiss, 2873. 20th-century full caramel-colored calf modestly tooled in
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[Magdeburg: Christian Rödinger, 1549]. 4to (20.5 cm, 8"). [32] ff. First vernacular translation of Luther's Aliquot epistolae Reverendi Patris piae memoriae D. Martini Lutheri quibusdam theologis ad Augustana Comitia, anno 1530, scriptae, being letters principally addressed to => Melanchthon and Brenz, with their replies, but other correspondents include Johann Friedrich I, Kurfürst von Sachsen; Gregor Brück; Georg Spalatin; Justus Jonas; Johann Bugenhagen; Georg III, Fürst von Anhalt; and Kaspar Cruciger. The letters were collected by Veit Dietrich and edited by Matthias Flacius Illyricus. Apparently the motivations behind this publication were based in the Adiaphorist controversy that the Diet of Augsburg resolved in 1548, and the imperially issued Augsburg Interim during the Diet. Flacius wished to remind Protestants that Luther's stances on many of the issues addressed by the Augsburg Interim were at odds with the contents of that document — which Luther himself could not do, as he had died in 1546. Printed in fraktur, of course, and with a large woodcut portrait of Luther (Kind's no. 63) on the verso of the title-page, this was, strangely, issued without imprint information. Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of H. Spart; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear. Kind, Lutherdrucke, 264; Hammer, Melanchthonforschung, 90; VD16 L3726; Hohenemser, 2713; Kuczýnski, 1838; Pegg, Bibliotheca, 764; Pegg, Swiss, 2873. 20th-century full caramel-colored calf modestly tooled in blind with rules on the cov
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[Magdeburg: Christian Rödinger, 1549]. 4to (20.5 cm, 8"). [32] ff. First vernacular translation of Luther's Aliquot epistolae Reverendi Patris piae memoriae D. Martini Lutheri quibusdam theologis ad Augustana Comitia, anno 1530, scriptae, being letters principally addressed to => Melanchthon and Brenz, with their replies, but other correspondents include Johann Friedrich I, Kurfürst von Sachsen; Gregor Brück; Georg Spalatin; Justus Jonas; Johann Bugenhagen; Georg III, Fürst von Anhalt; and Kaspar Cruciger. The letters were collected by Veit Dietrich and edited by Matthias Flacius Illyricus. Apparently the motivations behind this publication were based in the Adiaphorist controversy that the Diet of Augsburg resolved in 1548, and the imperially issued Augsburg Interim during the Diet. Flacius wished to remind Protestants that Luther's stances on many of the issues addressed by the Augsburg Interim were at odds with the contents of that document  which Luther himself could not do, as he had died in 1546. Printed in fraktur, of course, and with a large woodcut portrait of Luther (Kind's no. 63) on the verso of the title-page, this was, strangely, issued without imprint information. Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of H. Spart; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear. Kind, Lutherdrucke, 264; Hammer, Melanchthonforschung, 90; VD16 L3726; Hohenemser, 2713; Kucz&ya
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1549. Cat. Rijksmuseum II, p. 412; Scheepers II, 258; Simoni S225; for the author: Ter Laan, Letterkundig woordenboek, p. 500. Interleaved copy of the second edition of "the first great poem of the Dutch Renaissance" ("Het eerste grote dichtstuk van de Noordnederlandse Renaissance", Ter Laan). The work is, as usual, bound with the first edition of a translation of Epictetus with commentary by Spieghel.The posthumously published Hart-spieghel is an influential arcadian poem divided into seven books (the only ones written of the intended nine), each devoted to one of the nine muses, and is notable for his lovely descriptions of Dutch landscapes. The Dutch linguist, philosopher and author Hendrik Laurensz. Spieghel (1549-1612) is seen as a forerunner of Vondel, Hooft and Huygens, and the present poem, first published in 1614, is his most important.The Hart-spieghel contains the usual woodcut portrait (a few copies have an engraved portrait instead). With old inscription on the flyleaf, but the interleaves still blank. Very good copy. [Attributes: First Edition]

Christian Rödinger, 1549. First vernacular translation of Luther's Aliquot epistolae Reverendi Patris piae memoriae D. Martini Lutheri quibusdam theologis ad Augustana Comitia, anno 1530, scriptae, being letters principally addressed to => Melanchthon and Brenz, with their replies, but other correspondents include Johann Friedrich I, Kurfürst von Sachsen; Gregor Brück; Georg Spalatin; Justus Jonas; Johann Bugenhagen; Georg III, Fürst von Anhalt; and Kaspar Cruciger.
The letters were collected by Veit Dietrich and edited by Matthias Flacius Illyricus. Apparently the motivations behind this publication were based in the Adiaphorist controversy that the Diet of Augsburg resolved in 1548, and the imperially issued Augsburg Interim during the Diet. Flacius wished to remind Protestants that Luther's stances on many of the issues addressed by the Augsburg Interim were at odds with the contents of that document -- which Luther himself could not do, as he had died in 1546.
Printed in fraktur, of course, and with a large woodcut portrait of Luther (Kind's no. 63) on the verso of the title-page, this was, strangely, issued without imprint information.
Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of H. Spart; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear.

Venezia: Giolito, 1549. 8vo, [9], 272, [6] leaves, without the final preliminary blank, woodcut printer's devices on the title page and colophon, woodcut historiated initials, italic type. Bound in 18th century vellum, gilt spine withg leather label, cover little bowed. aeg, a few minor early underlinings. A very good clean copy. (Bongi, Giolito, I 247). Erdmann 29; Feminsim is Collectible # 63; BM/STC Italian p. 222. First edition of an important work in praise of women, containing interesting biographical details on various Italian ladies noteworthy for their virtue or beauty, and many curious observations, such as those on the qualities of marriage depending on the husband's profession. This is divided into five long dialogues. The first four refute arguments about the inferiority of women while the fifth book lists impressive contemporary women noted for their beauty and virtue and includes short biographical details. Domenichi was a native of Piacenza and studied law in Padua and Pavia. He worked as a translator and was involved with publishing some heretical books which caused him to be imprisoned for a year. He later became official historiographer to the medici Court. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Ex typographia Matthaei Dauîdis, 1549. Sole edition of these poems dedicated to Marguerite de Valois, addressing numerous people including Anne de Montmorency, Jean du Bellay, and Charles de Lorraine, from "the first major Neo-Latin poet of France" (The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin, p. 417). The text is neatly printed in roman and italic with fleurons marking the start of each poem and => a fantastic woodcut printer's device on the title page: "Truth is a knife to the neck of a man who does not respect it," as per CRAI (University of Barcelona, our translation).
Binding: Signed 19th-century red morocco, covers triple-ruled and spine compartments stamped and lettered in gilt; board edges double-ruled in gilt, arch and daisy gilt roll with dentelles on turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Binder's minute rubber-stamp reading "Petit Succr. de Simier" on front free endpaper.
Evidence of Readership: Five leaves with marginal words, numbers, underlining, or accents in an early hand; a French genealogical note, written in another hand, tucked into the front cover.
Provenance: Small armorial rubber-stamp of Christian symbolist and archaeologist Louis Charbonneau-Lassay on first and last leaf of text, with his gift inscription to "le Comte François de Rilly" (i.e., François Odart de Rilly d'Oysonville) dated 18 March 1929 on front endpaper; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear.